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Livestock Emissions Account for 51 Percent of Greenhouse Gases
Green Lifestyle  (tags: greenliving, factory farming, environment, greenhouses gases, livestock )

Simone
- 27 days ago - advocacy.britannica.com
In 2006, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported that livestock accounted for 18% of greenhouse gases, making livestock emissions "one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems."
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the USDA Factory Farming Isn't 'Natural'!!!!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, not natural, animals, greenliving, eco-friendly, conservation )

Simone
- 39 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Cows mutilated, fed unnatural diets, and crowded into filthy enclosures where they endure injury, stress, and disease. Piglets separated from their mothers and crammed into dirty concrete pens where they will never see sunlight or breathe fresh air.
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Factory Farms Breed Dangerous Food
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Road
- 93 days ago - care2.com
Even if you live in a city hundreds of miles from the nearest factory farm, there are still lots of reasons to be concerned about who is producing-and how-the meat and dairy products you and your family consume.
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ACTION ALERT: Help Prevent Future Swine Flu Outbreaks! Stop Factory Farming!!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, global warming, swine flu, vegetarian, greenliving, environment, humans )

Simone
- 102 days ago - action.peta.org.uk
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a public health emergency in response to the swine flu outbreak, and the number of confirmed cases worldwide continues to rise. The source of the deadly strain of the influenza virus that erupted in
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Efficient Animal Farming An "Illusion" - Reform Advised
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, unhealthy, animal wefare, health, organic, globalwarming, environment, water, Sustainabililty )

Simone
- 115 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The efficiency of current animal farming practices is an "illusion", according to a report released last Summer by the Pew Charitable Trusts. This "illusion" is made possible by "cheap grain, cheap water and prison-like confinement systems." Underpinning
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the UDSA Factory Farms Isnt 'Natural'!!!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, greenliving, conservation, animals, eco-friendly, environment, organic )

Simone
- 136 days ago - wspa-usa.org
Living cramped in a cage or crate without fresh air, sunlight or freedom of movement doesn't sound very natural does it? Yet, earlier this year the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a voluntary standard that allows producers to put
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Sobering Statistics About Factory Farming
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, reports, vegan, vegetarian lifestye )

Simone
- 154 days ago - all-creatures.org
Why It's Smart to Go Vegan. Forty million cows and calves are killed annually. Cows have a life span of 20-25 years, but a factory-farmed cow is used up by the time it is 3 to 4 years old and sent to the slaughterhouse. The organic waste from these giant
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Factory Farms and Swine Flu: A Food System That Kills
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, health, humans, meat industry, swine flu, vegetariangreenliving )

Simone
- 196 days ago - all-creatures.org
Mexico is in the midst of a hellish repeat of Asia's bird flu experience, though on a more deadly scale. Once again, the official response from public authorities has come too late and bungled in cover-ups. And once again, the global meat industry is at
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So What Does the Inside of a Factory Farm Look Like Anyway? (Slideshow)
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, vegetarian lifestyle, eco-friendly, environment )

Simone
- 200 days ago - treehugger.com
There are myriad reasons why concentrated animal feeding operations (the technical cleaned up newspeak term for factory farms) are bad for the animals, the environment and human health. But without some sort of visual reference to what these farms are
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Jamie Oliver Restaurant Used Battery Eggs - Telegraph
Green Lifestyle  (tags: free range chickens, Jamie Oliver, factory farming )


- 679 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Jamie Oliver, the television chef, faced fresh embarrassment over his factory farming campaign when it emerged that one of his restaurants served eggs from battery chickens.
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Institutionalised Animal Cruelty & Abuse
Green Lifestyle  (tags: factory farming, animals, abuse, vegan, environment )

Live
- 798 days ago - factoryfarming.com
Factory farming - 59 billion animals / year suffer & die in factory farms all for our taste buds. We do not need meat or dairy to be healthy as many vegans can attest. Injustice anywhwere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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